The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-17
The Convention Opens at Nashville
Miss Frances f. Willard the Shin
ing Light of the Meeting.
A Comprehensive Synopsis of Her
Superb Annual Address.
Northern Home Keepers Embrace
Their Southern Sisters.
There Are Enough Temperance Men to
Take Possession OF the Government
in the Near Future Enfran-
chisemeut of Women.


NASHVILLE, Tenn, Nov. l6--'rhc Ma
tonal W. G. T. L. met in Watkins hall
at o'clock with representatives from al-
most every State aud Territory For the
iilst time Indian Territory has sent its
president
Upon the platform were seated Mvs
Judge Thomson, OF llillsboro, o. mother
OF the crusade in 1883; Pundita Ramabai,
yicc.prcsidcnt OF the Worlds W. G, T. L.
for India, and the officers OF the National
union. The hall is decorated with beauti-
iul banners and flowers. Mrs. Hannah
Whitehall Smith, lately returned from Eng
land, opened the convention with Bible
reading on love. AT its close, Miss viii
lard gave the motto for the days to come
There is nothing memorable hut love"
Before the croWnng event OF the conycn.
ton Miss Willard's annual address the
entire front Of the platform was lined with
representatives Of the press, among whom
We note Miss Catharinc Cole, OF the New
Orleans picayunc, and NIH. VI. Helen
Crane, for the New York World.
The hall was crowded with members Of
the convention and visitors, and there was
not even standing room in the outer
hall. Perfect quictncss prevailed while
/ Miss Willard delivered her annual
/ address. Mrs. lidc Mcriwethcr, prcsi-
! dent OF Tennessee, presided. The address
/ was frequently interrupted with applause.
In loving kindness and sympathy, in
breadth ol vision and depth of resolve, her
message tu the white ribbon women can
not be cNcyilcd.
MISS wHLARD's ADDRESS.
The following * synopsis Of the annual
address of Miss Frances l.. Willard, pIcsi-
dent Of the National Woman's Christian
temperance union
| Forty States aud Territories have srnt iOo repre-
! sentative tu The metropolis ui southern education.
| The Northern homclr"p'fS have cru.cd Ml-"n
| and Dixon liuo io clasp hands with their tstvt,
| No ruur token that We arv one nation hHs been
| given since isi.
SiNty-ior different suggestions of work
were tabulaicd under the heads Of prcycn-
lion, educational, cynngchstic, social aud
legal work The fact that no State union
j. bound by the action OF the national 50
Cieiy was emphasized.
/ lHfNt an moi enough Ntlafnluuu NfVWfliHnna
nt the uouh 70 cnily prohibition Ia singlc sintc
| that T. now struggling a. arcurr it, nor enough
ami saloon Democrats y thu south, which has hrcn
I uruyrd lu this memorable YVurUl lUUrrurstltufluunl
! drisuis but thrrc arr enough Temperance men lu
hoth a. take rns.es.ou ul thU government and r,c
~ nntiuunl prohibition iu the Iafiy ~ the NEAR
| fuiutc which ~ IN he the party ut Col Women
! should usD their utmost influence. mud wherever
they have the shOpl ballot thDy should uso thpt to
gnrmli The kindergarten 1Ipn ihc public schools
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| nhlsh ono. but uluNp all. lct every mother study
the sy,l,m aud employ d iu her own home
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CyanrullstD veterans has prUpu.ci ihnt We district
the nation. giving ia each uhlil Isuu q leader ui
it, avn. ! hop, Der plan may uU carefully con.
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| longer prevail, When QUE legal work shnll hruHlu
into publir hutrriu'ua aud Industrial school.
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lunr,-t mught when thU ,huUh shnll welcome be-,
tu nll her councils lnv uluY uuf head. her oou,C
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spguts iur christ
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